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I'll have to keep an eye out for a Powerjoy Console Controller. Its reputated to be all new home brew games, unfortunately did not work. What I really hoped to try is my Powerjoy Navigator 50 game cart. Okay why all this excitement over a clone? Just like my earlier Bootleg Famicom converted to NES cart, it has a bunch of NES games and the recalled game TENGEN TETRIS! The bottom Famicom port works great, though the plastic housing will have to be shaved open a little. Even better, a Modded Direct Control ROB. Oh well, its better to play in a Real NES with ROB controlling the doors. The A and B buttons work in test mode, but only the direction buttons work in the game since I don't have second controller attached. The Superjoy now works! The real jewel is the Famicom connector underneath! I confirmed my Gyromyte Famicom PCB out of the NES cart works. The buttons are actually decent for this bootleg clone. Super Joy III - Power Joy Navigator 03.jpg (208.91 KiB) Viewed 19925 times The cheap looking power brick is as light as a feather, but hey it does work. Looks like the previous owner tried to push it and broke off the plastic non functioning stick. The Superjoy III analog stick is fake, just a piece of plastic. I think Hobie mentioned of owning a clone, curious if he tried? I would hate to fry either the controller or this Famicom clone. The 2600 is just switches, but I think the Genesis controller has a PCB inside it. I wonder if a 2600 or a Genesis controller might work. There is a 9 pin matching port in the Superjoy III, looks just like a 2600 controller port. The second controller is a standard 9 pin connector like the 2600 and Genesis. Unfortunately the Superjoy is just the primary controller, the second controller and lightgun were missing. I bought a Powerjoy Navigator 50 Game Cart and a Famicom 66 game Bootleg cart a few weeks ago, so I'm intrigued by any Famicom clone. 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The place smells like fresh sawdust, which is better than sweat or stale beer except for the part where America keeps sneezing, and a steady stream of people flows through the door to buy the Lord Chamberlain’s Men a round or shake Burbage’s or Will’s hand or greet someone else with a hearty backslap. Will sputters but smiles, and signals the barkeep for another round. Sorry." He releases Will, who looks a little redder in the face than the booze alone accounts for, and thumps him on the back. "Ay, and thou hast won for thyself no small share of admirers," Will says, inclines his head towards the gaggle of ladies still winking America’s way. "Holy crap, Will, did you see, they loved it, they loved us-" "We did it!" America whoops, sweeping Will into the biggest hug he can. Notes: This is also known as the "time travel and Shakespeare and zombies" fic. Summary: Sent back in time to deal with a mysterious threat to England's nationhood, England and America contend with witchcraft, the undead, the power of language, and their own clashing personalities.Ĭhapter Five: In which a horde of America's biggest fans are waiting to congratulate him braaaains, and England sounds far too much like Kit for Will's comfort. Title: The Worldsmith Ĭharacters: England, America William Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Robert Devereaux, and assorted other actors, playmakers, peers, gentry, scoundrels, spies, and thieves. In this chapter, William Shakespeare kills a zombie with a well-timed tankard of beer. |
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